Connect Excel to an Azure Analysis Services server
You can connect to Azure Analysis Services from Power BI, Excel and many other third party client tools.
Best practices
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Connecting Power BI to an Azure Analysis Services server
Last October we released the preview of Azure Analysis Services, which is built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
Modern Data Warehousing with Continuous Integration
Going a step beyond the traditional ways of developing a data warehouse by adopting CI practices which are more prevalent for API (.NET) based applications.
Azure Virtual Machine Internals – Part 2
Peek under the covers of how an Azure VM works and get to know some of the internal details.
Azure Virtual Machine Internals – Part 1
Peek under the covers of how an Azure VM works and get to know some of the internal details.
Azure Storage Queues New Feature: Pop-Receipt on Add Message
Announcing Popreceipt on Add Message functionality in Azure Storage Queues
Creating your first data model in Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services is a new preview service in Microsoft Azure where you can host semantic data models.
SOAP pass-through
Many of our customers have requested the ability to use Azure API Management to create a proxy for their SOAP APIs in the same way that we allow them to for REST/HTTP APIs, enabling developer portal integration, analytics, policies etc
Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET
One C# statement to authenticate. One statement to create a virtual machine. One statement to modify an existing virtual network, etc. No more guessing about what is required vs. optional vs. non-modifiable.
Create an Office 365 dev/test environment in Azure
Create a dev/test environment that simulates an enterprise organization using Office 365 and directory synchronization.
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
Alerting and monitoring for Azure Backup
We are excited to announce the preview release of alerting and monitoring for Azure backups, which is currently the top-voted idea on Azure backup UserVoice.